Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:58:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > all snip... > > Here's what I would do. Boot off a floppy or livecd. > Then, do NOT mount your root drive (/dev/hdb6) you may have a problem > with. run
Maybe I'm just not understanding your terminology here but /dev/hdb6 is not a root drive. It isn't even a system drive at all like /usr /var etc. > reiserfsck --check /dev/hdb6 Yes .. this exits silently and further leaving out --check does exactly the same thing anyway. > and see what pops up. If you get a message to run fix-fixable, then follow > those directions. Nothing pops up. I even ran --fix-fixable to see if anything would happen. It did not. > It could be as simple as not shutting down properly or having had to > reboot without shutting down at all. A status bit is set on the drive > which tells fsck that it was not shutdown properly. Reiser is unique in > that it can't really check the root partition carefully because it is > always mounted read-only when it checks it. If that were it wouldn't it disappear after reiserfchk? > But definitely, you need to boot off a different medium to fix this. I'm not following this. Maybe you thought it was / ? Or am I missing an important part of this? It is /anex2 a disk I keep backups of some stuff on. Mostly rsync writes to it during an rsnapshot run. Shouldn't I be able to just umount it and get the same results as if checking from separate media? I can do what you suggest easily so not arguing against it, just not understanding whey it would be different than the reported umount followed by reiserfsck /dev/hdb6 that exits silently. On further investigation: I'm finding it exits with exit code 16 which is supposed to mean a syntax error... now I'm really puzzled: umount /dev/hdb6 <no output> mount /anex2 <no output but a pause of about 1 second> # echo $? 0 df -h [...] /dev/hdb6 47G 12G 35G 26% /anex2 umount /anex2 # reiserfsck --check /dev/hdb6 reiserfsck 3.6.19 (2003 www.namesys.com) ************************************************************* ** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails ** ** please email bug reports to [email protected], ** ** providing as much information as possible -- your ** ** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck ** ** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, ** ** check the syslog file for any related information. ** ** If you would like advice on using this program, support ** ** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. ** ************************************************************* Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/hdb6 Will put log info to 'stdout' Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do): yes <enter> echo $? 16 >From man reiserfsck [emphisis added -hp]: EXIT CODES reiserfsck uses the following exit codes: 0 - No errors. 1 - File system errors corrected. 2 - Reboot is needed. 4 - File system fatal errors left uncorrected, reiserfsck --rebuild-tree needs to be launched. 6 - File system fixable errors left uncorrected, reiserfsck --fix-fixable needs to be launched. 8 - Operational error. *** 16 - Usage or syntax error. -- [email protected] mailing list
